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The Navy wants to add more firepower to its Virginia class submarines, which represent an important chunk of business for Newport News Shipbuilding. Some lawmakers like the idea a lot, and the Navy is now studying whether to accelerate the timetable. Whether it does depends on a number of factors, including how well the Navy can manage multiple priorities in its submarine program and the capacities of Newport News and Electric Boat of Groton, Conn., which jointly build the Virginia-class subs. Starting in fiscal year 2019, the Navy wants Virginia-class boats to have four additional vertical launch tubes that could carry a total of 28 Tomahawk cruise missiles — seven per tube. The...

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The Navy wants to add more firepower to its Virginia class submarines, which represent an important chunk of business for Newport News Shipbuilding.
Some lawmakers like the idea a lot, and the Navy is now studying whether to accelerate the timetable.
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Questioned guardrail endings used on Virginia highways and across the nation have passed a series of Federal Highway Administration crash tests, the agency announced Friday.
The FHWA said it's not done with all its analysis, but the results are good news...

Legislation requiring states to report deaths of people in police custody and during the course of an arrest sponsored by Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-Newport News, is headed to President Barack Obama’s desk.
The bill passed the Senate Wednesday...

As many as 80,000 veterans who suffered from post-traumatic stress and received Other Than Honorable discharges can use evidence of their PTSD to petition service boards to upgrade the bad paper discharge.At stake for individuals is removal of lifelong...

Department of Veterans Affairs officials are trying to put solutions in place to limit narcotic overprescribing practices in VA hospitals, they said Thursday, but lapses still happen. At a U.S. Senate hearing in Washington, Sen. Richard Blumenthal,...

Responding to pressure from Congress and veterans groups, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday it is relaxing a rule that makes it hard for some veterans in rural areas to prove they live at least 40 miles from a VA health site. The change...

David Walker, the former U.S. comptroller general, has taken himself out of the running to challenge U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Walker tells Hearst Connecticut Media (http://bit.ly/1N4aeqK ) he does not plan to oppose the Democratic incumbent next...

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Three U.S. Senators sent letters to the Baltimore Ravens and the National Football League on Thursday criticizing what they called "plainly inadequate" punishment for star running back Ray Rice.
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The governor's race is expected to be the closest in...